Gabriel Conroy. . . .
by HARTE, Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Vancouver, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1876. Tall 8vo. 466, [2] pp. Frontisp., 32 plates. Lavender-coloured cloth, black & gilt embossing, decoration & lettering on front cover & spine (minor chipping head & foot of spine, spotting to spine, wear to corners, minor bumping to corners, front inner hinge starting), still a G copy. First edition of Harte’s one serious attempt to write a full-length novel. The sensations begin with the straits of a party of settlers driven to cannibalism by famine, and culminate in an earthquake. Humorous scenes are interlaced with the murders lynching, miraculous escapes; and a perplexing tangle of villainy, love and jealousy, intrigue and counter-intrigue, is unravelled in an astonishing trial scene. See: Baker, Guide to the Best Fiction in English (1912), p. 417.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46057
- Title
- Gabriel Conroy. . . .
- Author
- HARTE, Bret
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- American Publishing Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, CT:
- Date Published
- 1876.
- Keywords
- California, Western Americana, American Literature, Fiction, Gold Rush, 19th-century Imprints, Bret Harte, Historical Fiction
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